Sable Kudzu's Sentinel 6 Adds NBA And NFL Names As Executive Producers
The production money and the pilot came from two retired pro athletes rather than a licensing deal, and the two dozen studio bids were decided before any broadcaster was named, so the rights and the release plan are still unsettled even as the series moves forward.
Reporting from 1 source: The Hollywood Reporter Anime.
Sentinel 6, an Afro-futurist sci-fi adventure anime, is in development with Michael Carter-Williams and Jamaal Williams on board as executive producers, alongside independent talent manager Sam Goff. LeSean Thomas wrote the pilot and is a consulting producer. Pat Stout and the late Asa Palmer created the series in 2019 under their company Sable Kudzu; it is set in 2429, after the Great Phoenix War, and runs 11 to 12 thirty-minute episodes. Creative Freaks won the production bid.
The pilot was fully funded in late 2025, after Asa Palmer died earlier that year. The Kickstarter trailer that preceded it, run in 2024, raised nearly $20,000 and was produced by the Bulgarian and German Chase A Cloud Studio.
Pat Stout traces the concept partly to the absence of Black characters in the anime he and Palmer watched growing up, and cites Static Shock, Samurai Jack and Batman Beyond among their Western influences. LeSean Thomas, whose credits include The Boondocks, Yasuke and Bass x Machina, wrote the pilot and is a consulting producer. Creative Freaks won the production bid after the project went out to two dozen animation studios.
Synthesized by Yomimono from the 1 cited source below, including Japanese-language reporting where cited, then editorially reviewed before publishing.
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- The Hollywood Reporter Anime Anime Series ‘Sentinel 6’ in Development With NBA and NFL Pros Michael Carter-Williams and Jamaal Williams as EPs